Burrito Gallery bringing restaurant, rooftop bar to new Brooklyn Station development in Jacksonville

Burrito Gallery, complete with a rooftop bar, is the latest addition to Brooklyn Station on Riverside. The restaurant is going into a 3,525-square-foot space right on Riverside Avenue. It's going into the spot at the end with the rooftop bar.

Burrito Gallery, complete with a rooftop bar, is the latest addition to Brooklyn Station on Riverside Avenue. The restaurant is going into a 3,525-square-foot space right on Riverside Avenue. On the roof will be a 2,500-square-foot bar, said John Valentino, one of its owners.

It will have a full food and bar service on both levels, he said.

The restaurant joins Fresh Market, Corner Bakery Cafe, Zoes Kitchen, Lucy’s Gift Boutique and Hair Cuttery in the development that’s currently under construction on Riverside just west of the Acosta Bridge. The first openings are expected this fall.

Burrito Gallery will go into the eastern end of a four-space strip that has yet to be started. Zoes, which is closing its store farther down Riverside Avenue, will be at the other end.

The restaurant will be owned by Shawn Lednick and Valentino, two of the partners in Gallery Restaurant Group, which owns Burrito Gallery downtown, Burrito Gallery Express in Jacksonville Beach and Uptown Market in Springfield.

The downtown spot will remain open.

“It gets primarily pedestrian, urban core traffic,” Valentino said. “And it’s driven by special events like Art Walk, plays, concerts. This will be a different market. I don’t think we’ll take any business from downtown.”

Valentino, owner of four Mellow Mushroom restaurants in the Jacksonville area, was brought into the Gallery group several months ago to help with the company’s expansion.

The new Burrito Gallery will have the same menu as the downtown location, though Valentino said both could be tweaked some. The kitchen, however, will be different.

“At the existing location, the kitchen is a function of the space,” he said. “But with this one, we’ll try to develop a model kitchen for the future.”

Construction hasn’t started on that building, but Valentino said he thought that developer Regency Centers plans to have it done by March. Build-out would take another three months, he said.